Diocese of Barica

The Diocese of Barica (in Latin in: Dioecesis Baricensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

History

Barica, currently known as Barika, is a town in today's Algeria, which was the seat of a diocese in the Roman province of Numidia. The only known mention of the diocese comes from a 592 letter by the Pope Gregory I, which contains a reference of a certain Peter, who held the post of the Bishop of Barica at the time.[1]

In 1933, Barica was restored as a titular seat by the Pope Pius XI.[2]

Known bishops

  • Peter (fl. 592)
  • Angelo Negri (1934 – 1949)
  • Karl Walter Vervoort (1950 – 1979)
  • Walter Theodor Jansen (1983 – 2004)
  • Stanislav Stolárik (2004 – 2015)
  • Michał Janocha (2015 – )

References

  1. ^ Migne, Jacques-Paul (1862). Patrologia Latina (in Latin). apud Garnier fratres. pp. 616–617.
  2. ^ Annuario Pontificio. 1936. p. 327.